Transition project workshops.
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'Then Slowly Let Them Go'
Thursday 27 March 2008
All Saints' Church, The Drive / Eaton Road, Hove, BN3 3PB
Tickets available from Tideway and Peacehaven School receptions
Glyndebourne Opera has been working with six primary and two secondary schools in the Newhaven and Peacehaven areas on a transition programme designed to introduce young people to opera and to support learning across the transition phase. The project has enabled Glyndebourne to build relationships with our local communities, developing local partnerships and leaving a legacy of effective creative learning with Creative Partnerships, Hastings and East Sussex.
The schools involved are:
Peacehaven
- Peacehaven Community School
- Hoddern Junior School
- Meridian Primary School
- Telscombe Cliffs Primary School
Newhaven
- Tideway School
- Denton Primary School
- Meeching Valley Primary School
- Southdown Primary School
The project this year has taken Britten’s comic opera Albert Herring as the starting point for creative work looking at the themes in both the source text, Maupassant’s story, Le rosier de Madame Husson and the libretto by Eric Crozier around ‘change’ and ‘growing up’.
Students in the 11 classes of the six primary schools created songs during the summer term with their teachers and Glyndebourne artists (a musical director, a composer and a writer). Over the summer the artistic team shaped the songs into a work that is now being rehearsed by the same students, now in Year 7, in both secondary schools.
Over the year the work has been further developed to create a larger piece, 'Then Slowly Let Them Go', that will be performed by the students with musicians from Glyndebourne and the Royal Academy of Music on Thursday 27th March 2008 at All Saints’ Church, Hove.
This performance is open to the public, and will include professional orchestral musicians and singers as well as nearly 300 students, in a massive setting with a dramatic set and staging!
The students also attended a performance of Albert Herring at Glyndebourne during October 2007. This gave them an opportunity to see the opera on which their own work was based.
Artists
We have been very fortunate to have an extremely talented and charismatic team working on this project. We welcome Justin Coe as the project’s writer and librettist, working alongside John Barber in the role of composer and arranger and James Redwood who regularly masterminds projects for Glyndebourne on Tour. The project has been supported by a creative learning mentor, Rebecca Meitlis
Project partners
Creative Partnerships
Centre for British Teachers
Contacts
If you have any questions about this project, or would like any further information, please contact the project manager, James Hancox. .